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The second annual Galway Climate Festival 10-14 September (www.galwayclimatefestival.ie) is inviting everyone—families, artists, businesses, students, and communities across the West of Ireland and beyond—to come together for an inspiring celebration of climate action, creativity, and collective hope.

Settle in for a night of entertainment during your Hidden Heartlands tour with Dean Crowe Theatre and Arts Centre, Athlone. Situated on Chapel Street, the theatre started life as the church for St. Peter’s parish.

When Fred Johnston was appointed as literary officer in the embryonic Galway Arts Centre, he was asked, on his first day, if he had any plans. He told the then director Dick Donoghue of a dream he had ever since reading Daniel Corkery’s book Hidden Ireland in which the author discussed how ‘courts of poetry’ which had been set up after the Flight of the Earls where poets would gather and recite their works. Fred’s idea was to establish such a court that would introduce international, national and local poets to a Galway audience, a sacred place for the celebration of poetry where it might sing again to big audiences. He did not want poetry to constitute a cultural hidden Ireland.

As the All Ireland Drama Festival reaches its conclusion, local councillor Aengus O’Rourke has paid due tribute to artist Ruth Ryan whose recent portrait of PJ Lenihan now adorns the wall of the Dean Crowe Theatre.

Applications are now being invited from young singers and musicians in the Midlands region who are pursuing a career in professional performance in the classical field.

The Galway Arts Centre is in dire need of a multi-million renovation, according to City Council officials.

Certain to appeal to Midlands region movie enthusiasts, the full programme for the 14th OFFline Film Festival, to take place in Birr, has been officially announced.

The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is pleased to disclose a very special update on its longstanding, swift nesting project in conjunction with Swift Conservation Mayo: - the arrival of twin baby swifts in nest boxes located on the exterior wall of the historic Linenhall building.

Join Roscommon Arts Centre for some family fun this summer as they welcome BAD DAD, an adaptation of David Walliams bestselling book, to the stage on Saturday, July 15, at 3pm.

This May, as part of the Bealtaine Festival, author and poet Gerry Boland will host a series of writing workshops at Roscommon Arts Centre.